Chairman Ferguson opened the investigation weeks ago and the agency is now drafting civil investigative demands to compel testimony from Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs - and from METR, the watchdog that tests them.
MI5 named the China General Technology Research Institute a front for Beijing's ministry of state security, said its purpose is funding research that improves MSS espionage capability, and warned academics they can now be prosecuted under the National Security Act.
Argon tops DeepSWE at 77.9% and lifts the output ceiling from 64K to a million tokens, but it goes first to cyber defenders in Google's Fairwind programme - with the cyber guardrails deliberately switched off.
OpenAI says people tied to Kimi's maker ran a scaled campaign from the first week of July to reproduce its protected reasoning - no breach, no stolen conversations, just manipulated prompts - and the attribution is OpenAI's own.